Walthers Cornerstone HO Scale Corn Storage Silos & Elevators

SKU 933-2975

Ethanol is big business--especially for railroads. Long trains of identical
tank cars and huge strings of covered hoppers moving grain and ethanol
byproducts have become an important part of the railroad landscape. Since
the late 1980s and early 1990s, ethanol has more than DOUBLED the traffic
hauled by some railroads!

Ethanol traffic touches almost every corner of the North American rail
network--from the vast cornfields and wheat fields of the midwest to busy
petroleum terminals in large cities. It should touch your post-1980s model
railroad too!

Corn is the main source of the starch that's converted into ethanol, and
production facilities consume many carloads per day. Many ethanol plants
keep about a 10-day corn supply on hand, all of which is stored in on-site
concrete silos. A conveyor leg moves the corn from the unloading shed to
the silos and a smaller conveyor sends it from storage to the processing
center.

On your layout, the Corn Storage Silos & Elevators kit brings a landmark to
your North American Ethanol complex. All plants need corn storage silos,
and large plants may need several. The kit includes the large double silo,
rooftop handrails, the inbound elevator leg and the small elevator and
conveyor bridge that moves corn to the processing center.

While designed as a vital addition to an ethanol plant, with the addition
of your own hopper car loading chutes (available separately), the tall
concrete silos and elevators in this kit can also be used as a stand-alone
trackside grain elevator or as a modern addition to a larger grain handling
facility.